9-Letter Words Starting with D

Leaves-dropper (wordplay)

Type of chemical sprayed on plants

I don't mess with leaf stripper

Use Agent Orange on

One does this and leaves off

Remove leaves from a tree

Cheated (of cash)

Swindled

Cheated

One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.

Costs incurred by scuffle during trades

Costs incurred as result of wear during transactions

Defrayer

Benefactor's activity

Bearing the expenses of

Degasser

Degas

Cleared, as a drive

Erased, as videotape

DEGAUSS to demagnetize

Neutralizes a magnetic field

Deglaze

Degrader

Demeaning, humiliating

Causing humiliation

Small cucumber

Degrease

Cleaning material, for example Gunk

Engine treatment

Degrease

Make heated and dry (wordplay)

Deprive of water

Remove moisture from, make dry

""Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book.as, a deistic writer; a deistical book.""

Units equal to 0.3527 ounces

Same as Decaliter. Decaliter.

Same as Decameter. Decameter.

Delation

Delead

Deleave

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy or an agent.

Took off one's plate

Assigned, as tasks

Assigned authority

Agent

Representatives or deputies

Assigns jobs to club representatives

Signers of the Declaration

LEGATOR one that {legates=v}

Moved leftward, eastern pots

Blue-and-white pottery

Rotterdam pots

Washables requiring special care

Table treats, of old

Undies

Portray precisely - teen ideal (anagram)

Show by drawing

Explain in detail

Demagog

By way of being a teacher

Rabble-rousing

Agog in half a hundred like any schoolmaster

Emotion-arousing politico

Incite-ful orator

Political agitator.

One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.

Nagging ones

Asking is difficult

Maddening disposition of the importunate

A tough marathon course will be this

""A yellowgreen, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.""

Establish escort eats whipped cream

Bound, as ground.

Mark boundaries.

Changes of policy, as in diplomacy

Policy changes

Demark

Demast

Lowering in dignity as in endgame

Humiliating, lowering in respect

Lowering in reputation as in end game

Facial appearances

Outward attitudes

Bearings

Energy low inside gloomy carriage

Unusually enamoured by one's appearance

Manner of behaving towards others

DEMENTIA a mental illness

Losses of sharpness

Symptoms of a mad, mad world.

Mad conditions

Demerara

Moore's coffee cup (wordplay)

Pour out mug inside of French coffee

One may go with a saucer

Rule of the people

Form of government.

McCoy read novel, The Common People

Their sights are set on '54

Certain party men.

US political party

Demoniac

Fiendish

Detention in port

Object and go mad about the Bank's cut in gold transactions

How one may object to fury, yet have to pay for it after some delay

Demurral

Like alcohol that's unfit for drinking

Unfit to drink.

How a turn is twisted indeed for a change

Renders unfit to drink.

Doctors date nurse foolishly

Changes the character of area in false set

NERVATE having veins

Say bad things of French granite pieces

Put down one jar after study

Blacken the name of.

Formed from a noun

""A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.""

Denudate

Denudate

Sure thing (wordplay)

Underarm spray, perhaps

Secret stuff (wordplay)

Depaint

Departee

Taking a hike

It's just no go

It's just no go for the leaves

One of a sort of leaves (wordplay)

Going on leave

Leaving for something new

Dented pan? (anagram)

One's kept earring of Parisian seen first

One needs support ot kill the insect at last

Depilate

Strips down and regularly does gentle exercise

Getting off a DC-6.

Depraver

Leading down the primrose path

Immoral act(s) - wickedness

Theological word for original sin

Moral corruption

Belittle tatty carpet kept by woman

Feel and express disapproval of

Express disapproval of

Plunder, old style.

Prey upon.

Rob and Pete dread being made to look silly

Deprival

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

Purified.

Depurate

Deraign

Throwing off-track

Turn red, get sick, being off the track

One line I found in terrible danger, this action becoming possibility (wordplay)

Making mad with gardening

Derat

Inferable

Derivate

Anatomy An area of skin innervated by sensory fibers from a single spinal nerve.

Rate dodge made to seem disreputable

Lowered in rank

Detracted from French staff outside entrance

Runs down

Disparages

Desalter

Desalt

Desand

Descant

Seer acted badly to abuse sacred object

Defile, as something sacred

Harm a church

Extra capsule in a pill bottle

Do not eat substance

Dryer found in freak accidents

Preserve by drying (eg coconut)

Preserve by removing all liquids from

Preserve by removing all liquids

Assign or appoint

Choose to throw giants' pants in river

Appoint gent with ideas, at work

Sought-after - rebel aids (anagram)

Worth swiping right on

Pleasing; agreeable.

In a desirable manner.

Like ghost towns

With no one around

Made extremely sad

Ravager

Does least (anagram)

Leaves forlorn.

Forsakes

Volunteers misplace gun without retreating. One's devastated!

Was without hope (of).

Gave up hope of cooking dried peas

Lacked hope

Hopeless one.

Road speed (anagram)

Billy the Kid, for one

Speed trick Radio 1 dropped? Bravo!

Adept seer (anagram)

Extremely dangerous (situation)

Crazy speed and more speed? Reckless!

Cleaned up a microscopic specimen, for example

Desugar

Detacher

Coming back in pain, Ted is not getting stuck with it

It's up to Ted not to be stuck with what makes him sore

Auto pinstripers, for example

They itemize

Fine-tuning a car

Professional car cleaning process

Giving particulars of French following

Ones being grilled, maybe

They're not going anywhere

People held in custody

Legal writs

Keeping in custody

Detassel

That can be detonated: detonable warheads; detonable bombs.

Noted date had switched and set off

Set off from school in old hat

Set off dynamite

Sets off, as a bomb

Causes an explosion

Sets off with girlfriends to tour the school

Do not tear off to get a primer!

Fuse, for example

Set off with this

Took value away (from)

Deprived of one's land (wordplay)

Took away (from)

Brooklyn trailer hauler (wordplay)

One who is critical

One disparages or belittles

Got off a Pullman

Got off the coach tired, on Eastern time

Stopped outside Denver's terminal and got off the choo-choo

DEUTERATE

Lessen the worth of

Lower the price of.

Lessen the worth of, as money

Depreciating

Lay waste to old Chester, say

What tornadoes do

Overwhelm, as with grief

Deviance

Going off the track

Erring and straying (wordplay)

A turning aside from a certain course

Departure from accepted standards

Non-U eats, the first with a plate getting in - they go another way

""Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion. as, deviatory motion.""

""Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived.""

Dewater

WATERER one that {waters=v}

Having loose skin under the throat, as a lizard

Ones with insulin resistance

Evil magic

Satanic activity

Magic roll I had shortly before heartless louse tucked into a brie

""Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil.""

DIABOLISE

To render diabolical.

Diacetyl

""Time the study and description of the change or development in the structural systems of a language over a stated period of time. Also called historical linguistics . Cf. synchronic linguistics . ; diachronic , adj . Linguistics""

Dick Dudgeon was the devil's

Act on idea put out by clerical office

Maybe grave judge backs withdrawing help

Help over judge's accent (wordplay)

There's one in Quebec

Crowning

Variant of dieresis .

Mark of two dots over a vowel

Symbol similar to an umlaut

Pronunciation dots

Adjective (-ic)

Identified

Doctor agonised over second opinions

Identifies problem of San Diego's poor

Doctors' determinations

Result of an exam

Physician's conclusion

Identification of a disease

They show a bias

Virgules or twills

Geometry lines

Diagram

Instruments for drawing figures.

Relating to regional speech

Science of logic

Method of logic.

Relating to discourse

Diallage

Dialling

Diallist

Dialoger

Dialog

Plato was one

Conversation writer

Held colloquy.

Works by Plato

Late talk recorded by King and Lyttleton

Two-person talks

""DIALYSE to use a kidney machine, also DIALYZE""

Dialyser

Dialyse

The material subjected to dialysis.

Dialyzer

Dialyze

Rhinestones

Widths of circular objects

They're found in circles that read Times

I'm in wards off the Circle Lines

Pertaining to a diameter; diametrical.

Absolutely opposed to as matricide

In direct opposition

Completely opposed

13 with ice (wordplay)

Pipe organ stops

Diapause

Diapause

Diaper

Diaphone

It separates the thorax from the abdomen

Stop here for photography

Vibrating part of a microphone

Bones

An abnormal prolongation of the axis of inflorescence.

Diarchy

DIARRHEA looseness of the bowels

Diarrhea

""Excessive and frequent evacuation of watery feces, usually indicating gastrointestinal distress or disorder.""

Administer a horrid enema to be purged of this (wordplay)

Motions not welcomed from her radio broadcast at one

Polish in Chicago and Italians in Argentina

Diaspore

Diastase

Relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase; effecting the conversion of starch into sugar.

Diastole

Part of a heart rhythm

I slid coat off, relaxed after being pumped up (wordplay)

Injecting iodine into clot aids dispersing of cardiac dilation